Job ok stohr



(No Model.)

J. STOER. KNITTED GAP.

Patented Dec. 16, 1890.

'THE Nnmus versus co., mowmmua,y msnmaron, n. c.

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

JODOK STOIIR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO OONYERS BUTTON AND MARTIN L. FINOKEL, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

KNITTED CAP.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,921, dated December 16, 1890.

Application filed October 22, 1890. Serial No. 368,897. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- soinewhat below the fold of the front strip 7L, 55 Be it known that I, JODOK STOHR, a citiso as to form the desired depending rear flap zen of the United States, and a resident of D. The edges ofthe folded strips are stitched Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented together to each other and to the body of the 5 certain Improvements in Knitted Caps, of blank by stitches w, and the top of the blank which the following is a specification. is closed by a row of stitches y, as shown in 6o The object ot' my invention is to make in a Fig. et, and the body of the blank is then simple manner from knitted fabric a visored folded and secured together in any manner cap especially adapted for winter wear, and which the desired form of crown for the cap io this object I attain in the manner hereinmay suggest--forinstance,in the form of cap after set forth, reference being had to the shown in Figs. l and 2, folds z' are formed in 65 accompanying drawings, in whiehthe front and top portions of the blank, as Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of av shown in Fig. 5, so that the back portion of knitted cap made in accordance with my inthe blank can be drawn over toward the i5 vention and illustrating two different adjustfront and secured, as there illustrated, and

ments of the cap, and Figs. 3, 4, and are as shown also in Figs. l and 2. 7o diagrams illustrating successive steps in the I am aware that it has been proposed to formation of the cap. make a knitted cap having a front visor and The cap shown in Figs. 1 and 2 has a crown depending ear-flap, and hence I do not broadzo A, visor B, and Iiap D, which can either be ly claim these features, but

turned up around the crown of the cap, as I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 75 shown in Fig. 1, or can be turned down, as entshown in Fig. 2, so as to form a protective l. A knitted cap consisting of a tubular covering for the ears and the back of the blank having its upper portion closed to form 2 5 neck, strings or ribbons a being connected to the crown of the cap, and having its lower the opposite front ends of the liap, and these portion divided by opposite vertical incisions 8o strings or ribbons being either tied together into front and rear strips, the front strip exin front of the crown, as shown in Fig. l, to tending without cut or seam around a proretain the iiap in the upturned position, or jecting visor-lining and thence up into the 3o being tied together beneath the chin to retube, the rear strip being folded at a lower tain the flap in the depending position, as point to form a dependingiiap, and the up- 85 shown in Fig. 2. turned portions of both strips being secured The cap can be made from a blank F, con'- within the crown of the cap, substantially as sisting of a piece of tubular knitted fabric, specified.

35 cut so as to form an incision b at each side 2. A knitted cap consisting of a tubular of the tube, a short depending front strip 7L, blank having a top inclined upward toward 9o and a longer depending rear strip CZ, as shown the rear and having its lower portion'divided in Fig. 8, the upper edge of the tube heilig by opposite incisions into front and rear preferably cut at an angle, as shown atf, or strips, the former extending without eut or 4o the blank for the cap may be made from two seam around a proj ectin g visor-lining and or more pieces sewed together so as to conthence up into the tube, and the rear strip 9j stitute the equivalent of the blank reprebeing folded at a lower point to form a desented in Fig. Avisor-lining g, of leather, pending flap, the crown of the cap having paste-board, or other available material cut a series of folds in the front of the same so 45 to the proper shape, is applied to the inner as to permit of the carrying forward of the side of the front portion of the blank at or high rear portion of the tubular blank to the loo about the top of the short strip 71 formed by front of the crown, substantially as specified. the incisions l), and this portion of the fabric In testimony whereof I have signed my is stretched so as to inclose the visor-lining, name to this specification in the presence of 5e as shown in Fig. 4, the strip 7L being folded two subscribing witnesses.

up inside the body of the blank, as shown at .IODOK STOHR. h', Fig. 4. The rear strip d is also folded up Witnesses: inside the body of the blank, as shown at d', EUGENE ELTERICH,

Fig. 4f, the fold in this strip, however, being 'HARRY SMITH. 

